• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Sarah Ladislaw

Center for Strategic & International Studies

Senior Vice President, Energy Security and Climate Change

Sarah Ladislaw, Senior Vice President and Director, Energy Security and Climate Change Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), leads CSIS’s work in energy policy, market, and technology analysis. Ms. Ladislaw is an expert in US energy policy, global oil and natural gas markets, and climate change. She has authored numerous publications on the geopolitics of energy, energy security and climate change, low-carbon pathways, and a wide variety of issues on US energy policy, regulation, and market dynamics. Ms. Ladislaw has spearheaded new work at CSIS on climate change, the electricity sector, and energy technology development. She formerly worked in Office of the Americas in the Department of Energy’s Office of Policy and International Affairs. Ms. Ladislaw is frequently invited to speak at public conferences, advise companies and policymakers, and testify before Congress. She is a member of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Strategic Analysis Technical Review Panel and the Strategic Advisory Council for Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Initiative. Ms. Ladislaw has taught graduate courses on energy security as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University and is a frequent guest lecturer at other universities.


Sessions With Sarah Ladislaw

Monday, 9 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    US Energy Policy, Climate & the 2020 Elections
    Climate & Sustainability Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory

    An intense national debate on the politics of energy and climate change is unfolding in the runup to the 2020 US election. Cities and states have taken measures such as net-zero carbon emissions and renewable portfolio standards. Some candidates argue for a ban on fracking and against natural gas. Others point to the transition from coal to natural gas as the key driver of US emissions reductions. Can the US achieve coherent strategies on energy and climate? What are the implications for US energy security and for US market leadership during the energy transition?

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Carbon Pricing & Policies: Choices & strategies
    Panel Climate & Sustainability

    Climate action is an imperative for the energy industry. Companies and countries adopt policies such as a price on carbon to reduce emissions intensity in pursuit of climate change goals. These policies are popular, but are they effecting real change? What are the economic and environmental costs and benefits of pricing carbon today? And what types of policies might be needed to achieve longer-term climate goals? 

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 07:30am - 08:20am (CST) / -

    Strategies for Improving Air Quality
    Climate & Sustainability

    Air quality is a pressing issue in many of the largest markets for energy today. As social concerns rise and new regulations are put forward to address local pollution, this Studio will explore what are today’s strategies for improving air quality and what will the effort to improve air quality mean for the future of the energy system?